They’re not clucking around. Animal activists blasted a plan to open an organic egg farm with 6,000 chicken on Long Island — calling it a “factory’ that could be a legitimate public health risk. The ...

It’s a cock-a-doodle-brouhaha. Residents on Long Island’s North Fork are Kentucky-fried mad about a plan to build a farm with 6,000 chickens in a residential neighborhood. Locals in Southold are ...

In a "right to farm" community, officials are balancing neighbors' concerns with the town's agricultural heritage.

Commercial chicken farmers literally bet the farm, spending millions of dollars on land and enormous chicken houses to raise birds they never own — putting their livelihoods in the hands of a single ...

Ida DeFrancesco loves her “girls.” The Northford farmer also loves sharing them. “The girls are just a normal part of a farm, and getting to bring that to other folks and get to see them get so ...